Purcell - Pious Celinda goes to prayers, Z410
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Special offer. Britten - Purcell Realizations
Felicity Lott, Susan Gritton, Sarah Walker, James Bowman, John Mark Ainsley, Ian Bostridge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Richard Jackson, Simon Keenlyside & Graham Johnson
Two irresistible discs—typically painstakingly produced and documented—and would deserve four stars if only they were there to give — More…
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Special offer. Purcell - Complete Secular Solo Songs
RecommendedBarbara Bonney (soprano), Susan Gritton (soprano), James Bowman (counter-tenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Michael George (bass)
The King's Consort, Robert King (chamber organ, harpsichord)
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Building a Library, February 2014, Large Box Set Recommendation
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Purcell: Come all ye songsters
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, on 17 March 2015
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Jonathan Manson (viol) & Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
of course it’s soprano Carolyn Sampson’s peerless Purcell that steals the show – whether inhabiting tortured madness, or the airborne, caressing grace of an opening set from The Fairy Queen.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Recital
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Special offer. Purcell - Complete Secular Solo Songs Volume 3
Barbara Bonney (soprano), Susan Gritton (soprano), James Bowman (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Michael George (bass), Mark Caudle (bass viol), Susanna Pell (bass viol), David Miller (theorbo, archlute), Robert King (chamber organ, harpsichord)
The King's...
This third and last volume of Purcell's non- theatrical secular songs consummates a most rewarding survey of 87 songs with more of the same: a vocal palette of six singers who are by now so... — More…
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Purcell - The Food of Love
Sacred & Secular Songs
Paul Agnew (tenor), Anne-Marie Lasla (bass viol), Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo, guitar) & Blandine Rannou (harpsichord)
Paul Agnew's long experience in the realm of French Baroque music makes him particularly sensitive to le goût français, his voice supple enough to realise with exquisite grace the intricate,... — More…
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Purcell - 'Tis Nature's Voice' And Other Songs And Elegies
René Jacobs (countertenor), Wieland Kuijken (viola da gamba), Konrad Junghänel (theorbo)
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Purcell: Britten
Songs by Henry Purcell, realised by Benjamin Britten
Robin Blaze (countertenor), Allan Clayton (tenor), Anna Grevelius (mezzo-soprano), Ruby Hughes (soprano), Benedict Nelson (baritone), Matthew Rose (bass), Joseph Middleton (piano)
The singers steer a convincing stylistic course, balancing the sometimes contradictory demands of the source material and the arrangement…Middleton’s playing is precisely coloured and characterised — More…
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